Every state is known for its own virtues and vices. But harmful behavior on the individual level can result in staggering economic costs, considering that gambling addiction costs the U.S. $5 billion per year and smoking costs dwarf that with over $300 billion per year.
With Mardi Gras coming up and sure to be full of drinking, drug use, and sex, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Most Sinful States along with its Mardi Gras Facts - Booze, Floats, Money & More infographic. To determine where the U.S. has the most moral growing to do, WalletHub compared the 50 states based on seven sinful behaviors: anger and hatred, jealousy, excesses and vices, greed, lust, vanity and laziness.
Here are some highlights from the report:
Sinfulness of Utah (1=Most Sinful; 25=Avg.)
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-sinful-states/46852/
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HOUSEHOLD
Premieres New Album
Everything A River Should Be
Out February 23rd via Equal Vision Records
Now Available for Pre-Order
"You can hear at times on the record where Gilbert is drawing
from a deep, personal, and incredibly vulnerable place.
This can be a daunting task as an artist, but a cathartic one to
experience as a listener." - Substream Magazine
Named One of Alternative Press'
Minneapolis, MN - February 21, 2018 - Minneapolis natives Household are thrilled to be streaming their forthcoming album, Everything A River Should Be, in full via Substream Magazine. Previously featured on Alternative Press, and named one of the site's "18 Artists To Watch in 2018," Everything A River Should Be will be released this Friday, February 23rd, 2018 via Equal Vision Records. It is now available for pre-order at household.merchnow.com.
On the album, vocalist Joshua Gilbert shares: "After 2 years of writing, we're finally able to share these songs with everyone! It means the world, having a label like equal vision to release this album on. The songs reflect the spectrum of human emotion and the cost of relationships. I hope these tracks meet people where they're at. All we can offer is our experiences and Everything a River Should Be is our representation of this messy but worthwhile life."
Everything A River Should Be is a record that redefines who and what - and even why - the Minneapolis trio are. Anybody familiar with the music the band - vocalist and bassist Joshua Gilbert, drummer Matthew Anthony, and guitarist Nathanael Olsen - made before will immediately hear the shift in sound of these 11 songs. While the urgency and sincerity of the raw and visceral post-hardcore they began life making remains, Everything A River Should Be is a collection of dense, dark and brooding songs full of a tense, glowering atmosphere.
Lyrically, too, the album - which was recorded over the course of a month by Nate Washburn at Atlanta's Glow In The Dark studios - marks a change in approach. Not only is this the first time the band have really had any production on a recording, but Gilbert says he has never written from the heart so much or presented so much of himself - and his emotions and fears and insecurities - within his songs.
"The songs touch on some close-to-home feelings for me," he says. "It's much more of a personal expression of my own emotions - it's not so much a declarative thing, as some of our music has been in the past. It's more personal and vulnerable in a lot of ways."
The band will be touring in support of the new record this winter with Senses Fail, Reggie & The Full Effect, and Have Mercy. The run kicks off in Santa Ana on February 27th and concludes in Las Vegas on March 31st. For a full list of dates, please see below or visit: www.equalvision.com/tour-dates.
For More Information, please visit:
Website: www.householdband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Householdmusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Householdmpls
Instagram: www.instagram.com/householdmpls
Everything A River Should Be Tracklisting:
1. Away
2. It's Easy To Feel Rotten
3. Dark Matter
4. Don't Listen To Me
5. Misiziibi
6. Far From Me
7. Scared To Be
8. Dreamer
9. Shore Slipper
10. Safe World
11. Bloom
Upcoming Tour Dates w/ Senses Fail:
2/27 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
2/28 - Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
3/2 - Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
3/3 - Austin, TX @ Barracuda
3/5 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
3/6 - Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
3/7 - Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
3/9 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
3/10 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
3/11 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
3/12 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground **
3/13 - Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
3/14 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
3/16 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
3/17 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
3/18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of The Living Arts
3/20 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
3/21 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
3/22 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
3/23 - Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
3/24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
3/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
3/27 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
3/29 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
3/30 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
3/31 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/3 - St. Louis, MO @ Fubar **
4/4 - Indianapolis, IN @ Hoosier Dome **
**Denotes show w/ Have Mercy ONLY
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GOOD TIGER
Announces Salt Of The East Coast
Headline Tour W/ Icarus The Owl & Megosh
Debuts at #2 on Billboard Top New Artist Albums
With Sophomore Album We Will All Be Gone
Available Now at metalblade.com/goodtiger
Streaming on Spotify
Named One of Alternative Press'
"Most Anticipated Albums of 2018"
"...We Will All Be Gone is a record that is beyond the need for genre
pigeonholes and relentless labeling."
- Outburn (9/10)
February 21, 2018 - Rock quintet Good Tiger is thrilled to announce that they will be hitting the road for their "Salt Of The East Coast" headline tour with Icarus The Owl and Megosh. The run kicks off on March 30th in Nashville, and includes stops in Atlanta, New Orleans, and Chicago. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 23rd at 10am ET. For a full list of dates or for more information, please visit: www.goodtiger.co .
In addition, the band will be performing at the BLACKLIGHT MEDIA Showcase in NYC's Gramercy Theatre on March 8th, as well as touring as direct support for Protest The Hero on their Fortress 10th Anniversary Tour beginning on April 19th.
Good Tiger had their strongest opening week to date with the release of their sophomore record We Will All Be Gone, out now via BLACKLIGHT MEDIA/Metal Blade Records. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top New Artist Albums Chart, as well as #3 on Current Hard Music Albums. We Will All Be Gone is also currently #9 on Top New Artist Albums Consumption, #15 on Current Rock Albums, #50 on Top Current Albums, #59 on Billboard Top Albums, #76 on Current Digital Albums, and #95 on Digital Albums.
Fans can stream We Will All Be Gone in full via Spotify, and it is available for purchase at metalblade.com/goodtiger. We Will All Be Gone has recently been heralded online and in print by Alternative Press, Outburn Magazine, Modern Drummer, New Noise Magazine, Cryptic Rock, and more.
Blending their influences in a manner that defies lazy classification sets Good Tiger apart from their contemporaries, imbuing everything they do with a distinctive sound and feel, and with We Will All Be Gone, Good Tiger have dramatically built upon their stunning debut, 2015's A Head Full Of Moonlight.
Comprised of guitarists Derya "Dez" Nagle and Joaquin Ardiles, bassist Morgan Sinclair, drummer Alex Rudinger, and vocalist Elliot Coleman, Good Tiger has raised the stakes across the board - every track on We Will All Be Gone has a definitive character of its own, and none stay in a single gear, all of them dynamic and textured as they evoke various tones and moods. Tracking at Middle Farm Studios in southwest England, the band recruited producer Forrester Savell (Karnivool/Dead Letter Circus), and engineer/mixer Adam "Nolly" Getgood (Periphery/Animals As Leaders). "We worked with Nolly on the last album, we had a great working relationship, and wanted to explore that further in a more developed situation," Dez explains. "Forrester has made some of our favorite albums, and is someone we could trust steering the ship. Having self-produced for so long it can be at times quite difficult to let go, so it was important we found people we could fully entrust to help create the album we wanted to make."
Good Tiger's sophomore album, We Will All Be Gone, is available now. To purchase, please visit: metalblade.com/goodtiger.
For more information:
Website: www.goodtiger.co
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GoodTigerOfficial
Twitter: www.twitter.com/goodtiger
Instagram: www.instagram.com/goodtigerofficial
Salt Of The East Coast Tour Dates:
3/8 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre **
3/30 - Nashville, TN @ Rocketown
4/1 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
4/2 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory)
4/3 - Orlando, FL @ Soundbar
4/4 - Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
4/6 - New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin' Wolf
4/7 - Fort Worth, TX @ Tomcats West
4/8 - Houston, TX @ Houston Underground
4/9 - Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live
4/10 - San Antonio, TX @ Jack's Patio Bar
4/12 - Springfield, MO @ Foh Lounge
4/13 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
4/14 - St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall
4/15 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
4/17 - Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch
**Denotes BLACKLIGHT MEDIA Showcase
Upcoming Tour Dates w/Protest The Hero:
4/19 - Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
4/20 - Ottawa, ON @ Brass Monkey
4/21 - Ottawa, ON @ Brass Monkey
4/22 - Quebec, QC @ Imperial Bell
4/24 - Halifax, NS @ Marquee Ballroom
4/25 - Moncton, NB @ Tide & Boar (Ballroom)
4/26 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
4/27 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
4/28 - Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents
4/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
5/1 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
5/2 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel Club Lounge
5/3 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
5/4 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
5/5 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
5/6 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
